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In our globalized world, differing conceptions of human nature and human values raise questions as to whether universal and partisan claims and perspectives can be reconciled, whether interreligious and intercultural conversations can help build human community, and whether a pluralistic ethos can transcend uncompromising notions as to what is true, good, and just. In this volume, world-class scholars from religious studies, the humanities, and the social sciences explore what it means to be human through a multiplicity of lives in time and place as different as fourth-century BCE China and the world of an Alzheimer’s patient today. Refusing the binary, these essays go beyond description to theories of aging and acceptance, ethics in caregiving, and the role of ritual in healing the inevitable divide between the human and the ideal.

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In The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It, David Weil traced the cracks that have developed in the traditional worker-employer relationship, and presented some ideas for updating our employment laws to more adequately address an economy characterized by outsourcing, subcontracting, streamlining, and freelancing. Since taking over as Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor in mid-2014, Weil has worked steadily to apply those ideas. In some areas, though, what we’ve needed isn’t a new legal framework so much as better application and enforcement of what’s in place. To that end, last week W…